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UNICEF & EU in pact to contribute circa $59 for health and water projects in Nigeria

UNICEF & EU in pact to contribute circa $59 for health and water projects in Nigeria

The European Union and United Nations Children’s Fund agreed to contribute 44.75 million euros ($59 million) for water and health projects in Nigeria.
The EU and Unicef, as the UN agency is known, will provide 30 million euros over four years to help improve maternal and child health in the northern Adamawa and Kebbi states, the EU delegation to Nigeria said today in a statement from Abuja, the capital. Plateau, Ekiti and Adamawa states will also get 14.75 million euros for water supply and sanitation projects.
More than 2,000 children under age 5 and 75 pregnant women die daily in Nigeria from preventable diseases including malaria and diarrhea, according to Unicef’s 2011 Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey. Africa’s most-populous country contributes about 10 percent of the world’s maternal deaths. Some 118 million people in the nation of 160 million lack access to improved sanitation while 70 million don’t have access to safe water, according to the report.
At least 1.5 million children and 380,000 pregnant women will benefit annually from the health project in Adamawa and Kebbi while about 80 percent of rural dwellers in Plateau, Ekiti and Adamawa will get improved water supplies and sanitation. The EU from 2012 to 2017 plans to invest about 200 million euros to improve water and sanitation in the West African country, according to the statement.
To contact the reporter on this story: Elisha Bala-Gbogbo in Abuja at ebalagbogbo@bloomberg.net
To contact the editor responsible for this story: Randall Hackley at rhackley@bloomberg.net